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In just over a decade, François Ozon has earned an international reputation as a successful and provocative filmmaker. A student of Eric Rohmer and Jean Douchet at the prestigious Fémis, Ozon made a number of critically acclaimed shorts in the 1990s and released his first feature film __Sitcom__ in 1998. Two additional shorts and eleven feature films have followed, including international successes __8 femmes__ and __Swimming Pool__ and more recent releases such as __Angel, Ricky,__ and __Le refuge.__ Ozon's originality lies in his filmmaking style, which draws on familiar cinematic traditions (the crime thriller, the musical, the psychological drama, the comedy, the period piece) but simultaneously mixes these recognizable genres and renders them unfamiliar. Despite tremendous diversity in cinematic choices, Ozon's oeuvre is surprisingly consistent in its desire to blur the traditional frontiers between the masculine and the feminine, gay and straight, reality and fantasy, auteur and commercial cinema. Thibaut Schilt provides an overview of François Ozon's career to date, highlighting the director's unrestrained, voracious cinephilia, his recurrent collaborations with women scree

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Author

Thibaut Schilt

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252077944

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Memoir, History